Team reported a single-atom decoration approach to greatly boost the platinum nanocatalysts for efficient electrical to chemical energy conversion or vice versa. The study titled “Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis” was published online in the prestigious journal Nature Catalysis on May 20, 2019. The research team was led by Xiangfeng Duan, […]

Thanks to generous support from alumni and friends, we are transforming our former library into innovative space, enhancing the UCLA experience for thousands of Bruins. If you have been on campus recently, you may have noticed the former 4th floor Young Hall Library space is under construction. Expected to be completed during UCLA’s Centennial Year, […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan has been named one of 31 National Finalists for the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Chosen from a pool of 343 nominated promising scientific researchers aged 42 years and younger from America’s top academic and research institutions, Duan is one of ten Physical Sciences & Engineering finalists. The finalists were […]

Professor Keriann Backus has been selected as a 2019 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Backus will use her Beckman funding to develop new approaches to identify functional, disease-linked, and chemical probe accessible pockets in human proteins. Backus received bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and in Latin American studies from Brown University […]

Professor Michael Jung and collaborators have discovered a new way to activate the stem cells in hair follicles that are responsible for hair growth. A leader in the field of synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, Jung holds the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and is Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UCLA. His breakthrough […]

Professor Neil Garg has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry effective July 1, 2019. In his announcement of the appointment Dean of Physical Sciences, Miguel Garcia-Garibay, said “I thank Neil for taking on the remarkable challenges and opportunities of leading an extraordinary Department. I am delighted that Neil […]

PhD student Ha Seong Kim and Professor Thomas Mason have substantially refined diffusing wave microrheology of highly scattering concentrated dispersions. When illuminated with white light, many soft materials, such as concentrated emulsions and latex paint, have a white appearance because these materials multiply scatter visible light. A light scattering technique, known as diffusing wave spectroscopy […]

Leading biophysicist and chemist Professor Ken Dill (Stony Brook University) gave the 2019 Daniel Kivelson Lecture on May 20, 2019. Professor Ken A. Dill is best known for his work on folding pathways of proteins.He is the Director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, where […]